Histories of philosophy tend either to be prodigious, learned works, like F.C. Copleston's A History of Philosophy, or idiosyncratic tracts of scholarly obfuscation, like Bertrand Russell's A History ...

The NY/NJ Consortium was founded to promote the study of the history of modern philosophy and to enhance communication and mutual cooperation between scholars of the history of philosophy within the ...

The Department of Philosophy at Saint Louis University is distinguished by a long-standing tradition of pluralism both of methodology and interest. In recent years, we have gained national and ...

Philosophy is a uniquely reflexive activity. It tends to swallow any question about itself and make it into just more philosophy. Other disciplines are different. The history of physics is not physics ...

"Descartes and the Hard Problem of Consonance: The Influence of Music on Descartes' Mature Views on Perception" Descartes is well-known for his mechanistic picture of sensory perception. However, he ...

A survey of major figures and theories from Greek and Roman antiquity to the Christian, Jewish and Islamic world of the Middle Ages, this course offers a critical introduction to philosophic debates ...

Metaphilosophy publishes articles and book reviews stressing considerations about philosophy and particular schools, methods or fields of philosophy. The intended scope is very broad: no method, field ...

The Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science (CHPS) at the University of Colorado, Boulder seeks to bring together scholars from the sciences and the humanities in order to promote ...

This essay reads Derrida's early work within the context of the history of philosophy as an academic field in France. Derrida was charged with instruction in the history of philosophy at the École ...

Melissa Lane, the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, has been awarded the Journal of the History of Philosophy's 2024 Book Prize for "Of Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of the Political" (Princeton ...